TLC In The News

New Adoption Location: Walden Galleria

February 16th, 2024 - Ten Lives Club opens adoption center at Walden Galleria, teams up with City of Buffalo Animal Shelter and Best Friends Animal Society to save hundreds of cats 

Ten Lives Club is excited to announce the opening of its newest adoption center at the Walden Galleria Mall in Cheektowaga. The cat rescue group will be partnering with the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter to pull friendly cats and have them available for adoption at their new adoption center.  When its population allows, the SPCA Serving Erie County will also participate in the program. 

Pandora’s story

Buffalo News: Aug 19th, 2023 - Pandora means a "gift to all," her traits are beauty – she has short gray hair and beautiful gold-green eyes – charm because she is gentle and sweet and cleverness because she has lived on the cruel streets of Niagara Falls while taking care of "Twinkles," her kitten.


Channel 2 WGRZ: April 13th, 2023 - Ten Lives Cat Club visits Most Buffalo

Ten Lives Club competes in March Muttness 2023 competition

Channel 2 WGRZ: March 23rd, 2023 - National competition March Muttness helps shelters like Ten Lives Club for cats and kittens.


Channel 2 WGRZ: March 16th, 2023 - National competition March Muttness helps shelters like Ten Lives Club for cats and kittens.











Channel 2 WGRZ: March 9th, 2023 - National competition March Muttness helps shelters like Ten Lives Club for cats and kittens.








 

Ten Lives Club Celebrates 20 Years

Channel 2 WGRZ: July 24th, 2021 - Ten Lives Club celebrated its 20th birthday Saturday.

The nonprofit held a party from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at its main shelter located at 3741 Lake Shore Road in Blasdell.  

At the event there was 70 theme baskets, a liquor basket raffle, a lottery board raffle, 50/50 vendors, a prize wheel, live music and more. The event also featured shelter tours, with cats up for adoption. Read More

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Help animals find fur-ever family during Clear the Shelters

Channel 2 WGRZ: August 15th, 2019 -Hundreds of animals from across Western New York will be adopted out as part of the annual Clear the Shelters event on Saturday.

"It's all about saving lives and that's basically what it does. It gets the community to come in," said Allison Kendall, a shelter manager at Ten Lives Club. Read More

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Opinions differ on cat declawing ban

Channel 2 WGRZ News: July 22nd, 2019. After Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law banning the declawing of cats on Monday, we spoke with a veterinarian, a shelter manager, and the Humane Society about the ban.

Allison Kendall from the Ten Lives Club worries fewer people might adopt cats if they can't get them declawed, because some apartments don't allow cats with front claws.

"The signing of the bill today is kind of going to be interesting for us because declawed cats have always been high demand at shelters," Kendall said... Read More

 
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Ten Lives Club Participating in ‘Be a Foster Day’

West Seneca, N.Y. (West Seneca Bee) - The Petco Foundation is hosting a nationwide “Be a Foster” event and West Seneca will not miss out. From 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, Petco on Orchard Park Road in West Seneca will be showing potential fosters how to bottle feed kittens and how to take care of the kittens in the event the mother is not present.

Those who have always wanted to be a foster home for Ten Lives Club Cat Adoption Group can attend this meeting and get more information about this program. Read More


Purrfect Cat Cafe and Gallery to split donated litter with Ten Lives Club

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Call it a purr-fect partnership. 

Hertel Avenue cat cafe Purrfect Cafe and Gallery is donating half of the free cat litter it receives twice a year to Ten Lives Club. 

The cafe recently partnered with World's Best Cat Litter to receive 500 lbs. of free litter every six months for the foster cats that reside in its Cat Lounge. 

Purrfect will split the free litter with… Read More

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